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M 1.6ml

18 km SW of Silver Peak, Nevada

· 0.8 km deep · released about 7.6 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 20 kmMono County 99 kmMineral County 110 km
Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.6 (ml)
Depth
0.8 km below the surface
Felt
no reports yet
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 20 km NE
Status
Automatic — a machine’s first estimate, which may change

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1905 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 7.6 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.6 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 2,000,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 1,400,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 130× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.6 about 7.6 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 37.6569, -117.8006. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 20 km (12 mi) SW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Mono County, CA 99 km (61 mi) ESE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Mineral County, NV 110 km (68 mi) SSE of here earthquakes near Mineral County
Nye County, NV 123 km (76 mi) WSW of here earthquakes near Nye County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

50 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.7 35 km NW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  2. 1.8 35 km NW of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 1.8 23 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  4. 1.5 52 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  5. 1.5 53 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  6. 1.6 50 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  7. 2.1 53 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  8. 1.8 24 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  9. 1.5 California-Nevada border region
  10. 2.9 8km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  11. 2.3 23 km N of Dyer, Nevada
  12. 2.4 28 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  13. 1.9 5km ESE of Deep Springs, CA
  14. 1.5 16km WSW of Deep Springs, CA
  15. 2.6 15km WSW of Deep Springs, CA

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.0 on 2020-03-13 — it released about 4,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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